Arturo O'Farrill: Song For Chico

The late composer Chico O'Farrill, along with Dizzy Gillespie, virtually invented the Latin-jazz idiom. His son, Arturo, leads the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra at New York's Lincoln Centre. It is a phenomenal band, striking exactly the right balance between fiery abandon and pinpoint accuracy. Arturo's writing may lack Chico's pithy turn of phrase, but he makes up for it with harmonic audacity and his command of orchestration.